Is this a [false impression or] stereotype or an example of the stereotype proved to be generally true?

Male sci-fi / fantasy authors write more about action and journeys and female sci-fi / fantasy authors write more about society and emotions. The question implies an oversimplification of talents, but it has been plaguing me lately, to the point of abandoning books one-third of the way through.Is this a [false impression or] stereotype or an example of the stereotype proved to be generally true?
I would say that it is a false stereotype.





Proof:


Andre Norton


Anne McCaffrey


Katherine Kurtz





all female authors who, though at times certainly doing the ';emotional'; thing, concentrate primarily on action in their writing





Jim, http://www.life-after-harry-potter.comIs this a [false impression or] stereotype or an example of the stereotype proved to be generally true?
Where you get in trouble with stereotypes is when you apply them to an individual you don't know. There are pronounced variations within any group. Maybe it is true that more female sci-fi authors write about society and emotions. That doesn't mean there isn't a fair share of male sci-fi authors who do also or that they couldn't do that just as well as their female counterparts. Search out an author of either sex in line with your expectations.
';It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree's writing. I don't think the novels of Jane Austen could have been written by a man nor the stories of Ernest Hemingway by a woman, and in the same way I believe the author of the James Tiptree stories is male.';





Robert Silberberg, about the work of Alice Sheldon, who wrote under the psedonymn of James Tiptree Jr.
I think to a degree, that's a generally true stereotype. I think of Ursula Le Guin's books, all of which focus on cultures and society rather than strange creatures or battles (though there are plenty of those as well). Of course, her father was a cultural anthropologist, so that might have something to do with it.





Frank Herbert created a societally based collection of books, Ray Bradbury and George Orwell both focused on societies and emotions as well...





I suppose it depends. Unfortunately, I've only read a few female sci-fi authors, so I don't really have enough basic knowledge to draw a conclusion.